son discharged
from a mental hospital.

(5.) It would be the duty of every Judge or Magistrate in all
cases brought before him in which there appears to be mental
enfeeblement or epilepsy to call to his assistance an
alienist, and, if the report is confirmatory, to order such
person's name to be placed upon the register.

N.B.--In the case of sections 1, 2, and 3 the Department would apply to
a Magistrate for an order to register the person concerned. In section 4
the process would be automatic.

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The Committee consider the machinery suggested for the purpose of
compilation of the register very suitable, subject to such modifications
as may be found necessary in practice, but have come to the conclusion
that it would be preferable for many reasons to keep cases of this kind,
as far as possible, free from Courts, a large part of whose work
consists in trying persons charged with criminal offences, and to follow
the plan which seems to be working very well in several American
States--namely, to set up a Board of experts to deal with these cases.

The Board, which might be called the Eugenic Board, should be a central
Board associated with a special Department or sub-department, of which
the head should be a man of sufficient personality, energy, and
organizing-power to grapple effectively with this question--first, by
taking the necessary steps to compile a reasonably exhaustive register,
and afterwards, by co-ordination with cognate Departments or by
independent departmental action, to build up the necessary machinery to
provide for the care, segregation, supervision, or treatment of the
class with which his Department is required to deal.

The compilation of the register is a departmental matter, but
legislative authority will be necessary, to provide for compulsory
notification and to prescribe the means. A well qualified departmental
officer should at once be detailed to take this matter in hand and
formulate from the evidence given to the Committee and from other
sources of information the method and means of obtaining complete
registration.

The first step towards the formation of the Board should be the early
selection and appointment of a thoroughly trained and experienced
psychiatrist. Irrespective of the necessity for the employment of such a
man as the scientific member of the proposed Board, the Committee are of
opinion that the Departme